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In 1958 a version of the integrated circuit was invented in Dallas by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments; this event punctuated the Dallas area's development as a center for high-technology manufacturing (though the technology Mr. Kilby developed was soon usurped by a competing technology simultaneously developed in the "Silicon Valley" in California by engineers who would go on to form Intel ...
Texas Instruments TMS1100 microcontroller inside the Parker Brothers Merlin electronics game. The TMS1000 is a family of microcontrollers introduced by Texas Instruments in 1974. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It combines a 4-bit central processor unit , read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), and input/output (I/O) lines as a complete "computer ...
Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, US. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm. The installation consists of 10 Cadillacs (1949–1963) buried nose-first in the ground.
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Originally called the Magic Cube, this cubic puzzle was invented by Hungarian sculptor and architecture professor Ernő Rubik. It may seem challenging, but there are 43 quintillion ways to solve ...
1974: The lithium-ion battery is invented by M. Stanley Whittingham, and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles. [507] 1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [508]
The Volkswagen Golf GTI of 1974 made the concept of a performance hatchback part of automotive mainstream thinking, though it had many precedents. The United States lagged badly in the development of compact and fuel-efficient vehicles, a side effect of industrial inexperience on the part of the manufacturers in Detroit.